Guide to Teaching Puzzle-based Learning

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Beschreibung

This book provides insights drawn from the authors¿ extensive experience in teaching Puzzle-based Learning. Practical advice is provided for teachers and lecturers evaluating a range of different formats for varying class sizes. Features: suggests numerous entertaining puzzles designed to motivate students to think about framing and solving unstructured problems; discusses models for student engagement, setting up puzzle clubs, hosting a puzzle competition, and warm-up activities; presents an overview of effective teaching approaches used in Puzzle-based Learning, covering a variety of class activities, assignment settings and assessment strategies; examines the issues involved in framing a problem and reviews a range of problem-solving strategies; contains tips for teachers and notes on common student pitfalls throughout the text; provides a collection of puzzle sets for use during a Puzzle-based Learning event, including puzzles that require probabilistic reasoning, and logic and geometry puzzles.

Über den Autor

Dr. Edwin F. Meyer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH, USA.
Dr. Nickolas Falkner is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean of Information Technology in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Dr. Raja Sooriamurthi is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Information Systems Program at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz is an Emeritus Professor of the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He also holds Professor positions at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology.

Zusammenfassung

Presents a range of general problem-solving strategies that transcend disciplines

Highlights the importance of introspection and the value of meta-level reasoning in the problem-solving process

Examines the development of the student in terms of their understanding of knowledge and epistemological progress

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Motivation and Teaching.- Motivation.- Getting Started.- Icebreakers.- Effective Teaching Approaches.- Part II: Tools, Tips and Strategies.- Understand the Problem.- Reasoning: Logic and Reasoning Backwards.- Pattern Recognition.- Enumerate and Eliminate.- Simplify!.- Perform a Gedanken: "What If?" and "So What?".- Simulation and Optimization.- Part III: Challenges.- Probabilistic Reasoning.- Logical Reasoning.- Geometric Reasoning.- Grand Challenges.- Summary.- List of Puzzles.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	EDV
Genre:	Importe , Informatik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Inhalt:	xvi 345 S. 98 s/w Illustr. 19 farbige Illustr. 345 p. 117 illus. 19 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9781447164753
ISBN-10:	144716475X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Meyer III, Edwin F. Falkner, Nickolas Sooriamurthi, Raja Michalewicz, Zbigniew
Hersteller:	Springer Springer-Verlag London Ltd. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Edwin F. Meyer III (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.08.2014
Gewicht:	0,552 kg